Newspapers at School -- Issue 09 -- Feb. 27-March 5, 2010

This week's standards:
Students read and understand a variety of texts. (Language Arts: Reading)

Activities:
1. Draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper. On one side, paste newspaper pictures/words showing things you need. On the other side, paste pictures/ words of things you want.

2. On a paper plate, paste newspaper pictures of things from these food groups: fruits, vegetables, meat/fish, milk or cheese.

3. Circle things in the newspaper that you can recycle in red and things you can reuse in blue.

4. Paste on a piece of paper three newspaper stories of people doing good things. Write a sentence telling why you admire these people.

5. Compare a print copy of your newspaper with its online version. List three advantages of each version.

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)